Table 2.
Serum Antibodies to Relapsing Fever Group Borrelia in Rodents, California
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USFS EcoRegion |
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No. samples positive/Total no. samples (%) |
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| Section / Subsection | Jurisdictiona | Elevation (m) | Chipmunksb | Ground squirrelsc | Other rodents | |||
| Mojave Desert (322A) | ||||||||
| Owens Valley | Manzanar NHS | 1162 | 0 | — | 0/2 | (0) | 0/12 | (0) |
| Mono (341D) | ||||||||
| Glass Mountain | Inyo NF | 2298 | 3/7 | (43) | 0/1 | (0) | 0/4 | (0) |
| Sierra Nevada (261E) | ||||||||
| Lower Batholith | Yosemite NP | 1207 | 0 | — | 1/4 | (25) | 0 | — |
| Batholith and Volcanic Flows | Yosemite NP | 1445 | 1/1 | (100) | 0/10 | (0) | 0/1 | (0) |
| Lower Batholith | Sierra NF | 1685 | 0/2 | (0) | 8/17 | (47) | 0/4 | (0) |
| Upper Batholith and Volcanic Flows | Tahoe NF | 1685 | 4/13 | (31) | 0 | — | 0/15 | (0) |
| Eastern Slopes | Humboldt-Toiyabe NF | 1793 | 2/14 | (14) | 2/19 | (10) | 0/7 | (0) |
| Frenchman | Tahoe NF | 1811 | 1/2 | (50) | 0 | — | 0/4 | (0) |
| Tahoe Valley | Lake Tahoe Basin MU | 1913 | 21/31 | (68) | 5/11 | (45) | 0/11 | (0) |
| Upper Batholith | Sierra NF | 2130 | 7/24 | (29) | 0/6 | (0) | 1/19 | (5) |
| Eastern Slopes | Inyo NF | 2189 | 7/12 | (58) | 0 | — | 0/42 | (0) |
| Tahoe Valley | Lake Tahoe Basin MU | 2269 | 1/3 | (33) | 0 | — | 0/1 | (0) |
| Eastern Slopes | Inyo NF | 2438 | 0/3 | (0) | 0 | — | 0/2 | (0) |
| Glaciated Batholith | Yosemite NP | 2620 | 9/20 | (45) | 1/5 | (20) | 0/23 | (0) |
| Glaciated Batholith | Inyo NF | 2774 | 10/31 | (32) | 0/4 | (0) | 1/2 | (50) |
| Southern California Mountains (M262B) | ||||||||
| Upper San Gorgonio Mountains | San Bernardino NF | 1707 | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0/3 | (0) |
| Upper San Gorgonio Mountains | San Bernardino NF | 1829 | 0 | — | 0 | — | 0/8 | (0) |
| Upper San Gorgonio Mountains | San Bernardino NF | 2081 | 0/5 | (0) | 0 | — | 1/5 | (20) |
| Upper San Gorgonio Mountains | San Bernardino NF | 2084 | 4/14 | (29) | 0 | — | 2/27 | (7) |
| Southern Cascades (M261) | ||||||||
| Hat Creek Rim | Shasta-Trinity NF | 975 | 1/6 | (17) | 0/1 | (0) | 0 | — |
| Hat Creek Rim | Shasta-Trinity NF | 1006 | 1/1 | (100) | 0 | — | 0 | — |
| Hat Creek Rim | Shasta-Trinity NF | 1123 | 1/8 | (12) | 0/2 | (0) | 0 | — |
| Lassen-Almanor | Lassen Volcanic NP | 1802 | 0/5 | (0) | 1/5 | (20) | 0 | — |
| Total | 73/202 | (36) | 18/87 | (21) | 5/191 | (3) | ||
a
MU, Management Unit; NF, National Forest; NP, National Park; NHS, National Historic Site.
b
Tamias amoenus, T. merriami, T. quadrimaculatus, T. senex, T. speciosus, T. umbrinus.
c
Otospermophilus beecheyi, Callospermophilus lateralis.